Information Security and Mobile Devices

Overview

More and more businesses are using smartphones and tablets to communicate, plan and organise their users’ work. These new technologies are causing profound changes in the way information systems are used and managed and are creating a new source of risks.

Mobile devices collect and compile an increasing amount of sensitive information. Clearly, access to this must be controlled to protect the privacy of the user and the intellectual property of the company.

This e-learning course aims to raise the awareness of this important topic with your employees and help ensure they know how to safely use mobile devices.

This online learning would be a great addition to Induction processes and where you need to provide policy understanding and sign-off throughout the business.

Outline Learning Objectives:

• Explain how and why criminals target mobile devices
• Describe how people can often ignore mobile security
• Implement security standards
• Apply sensible security measures to ‘over the air’ connections
• Know how and why to back up mobile data

Audience:

This e-learning course is aimed at all employees and gives a general overview of the key requirements of safely using mobile devices in the workplace.